Evil Plato

Rating: 3/10 (23 May 2006)

That movie is an answer to Plato's cave allegory and his ideas of the "Ideal State". 2400 years after they were written down, Michael Bay replies "been there, tried it, doesn't work". If you don't know the allegory, you should check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave and revisit the movie: it's all there - the cave itself, the shadows on the wall, the one who frees himself to see the real world and goes back to lead the others into the light... and also an evil version of the Ideal State with a Philosopher-king, with guards and peasants. Only in this movie the philosophers and the guards plot against the peasants and use them as "products" which can be seen as a bitter conclusion from all the failed well-intended forms of society we've experienced since.